Counihan confident Canty will face Down

CORK football manager Conor Counihan is “fairly optimistic” that captain Graham Canty will be available for selection for the All-Ireland senior football final against Down.

Canty has struggled with a hamstring injury for much of the summer, while fellow veteran Anthony Lynch has also been injured for much of the 2010 campaign, and Fintan Goold is trying to overcome a more recent knock.

At last night’s media briefing in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Counihan said: “Yeah we’d be fairly optimistic on that one (Canty).